Sports law clinic establishes new playbook for teaching sports law through experiential learning

Grab your popcorn — we have a front row seat to an area of law that's dramatically changing right before our eyes, so much so that it seems as if we’re building the airplane as we’re flying it. In just a few years, we’ve seen reforms to amateurism that changed the rules and impacted every college student‐athlete and program in the nation.

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College Athletics and the Law
Published
2026-02-01
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https://doi.org/10.1002/catl.70025
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Sports, Gender, and Society
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Sports law clinic establishes new playbook for teaching sports law through experiential learning

Christopher Mercado
College Athletics and the Law
Sports, Gender, and Society
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Sports law clinic establishes new playbook for teaching sports law through experiential learning

Christopher Mercado
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Abstract

Grab your popcorn — we have a front row seat to an area of law that's dramatically changing right before our eyes, so much so that it seems as if we’re building the airplane as we’re flying it. In just a few years, we’ve seen reforms to amateurism that changed the rules and impacted every college student‐athlete and program in the nation.

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Sports law clinic establishes new playbook for teaching sports law through experiential learning — Christopher Mercado · College Athletics and the Law (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS